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Delicate and exotic looking, coral-red flowers on short, narrow, grassy leaves. This compact plants is suitable for smaller gardens, smaller beds or containers. Flowers from summer till fall - living hummingbird feeder! Blooming Time: June to October...

Native shrub with bluish-green leaves (evergreen in the south), and larger 1.5-2" golden-yellow flowers in midsummer. Attractive to native bees, bumblebees and butterflies. Flowers appear on new wood, so can be sheared back in the spring if needed...

'New York Hellebore' offers 2½-3”, single flowers with shades of black that include deep grey-purple, jet black, and black-purple. Evergreen perennial with dark green thick leaves.  Blooms early, vigorous and is easy to grow. Tolerant...

'French Kiss' has 3-3½” single white flowers lined with raspberry pink that veins in toward the center of the petals. This is an evergreen perennial, with slightly nodding flowers, dark green thick leaves that blooms early, vigorous and is...

'First Dance' bears 2-2½" double flowers in a mixture from bright yellow to yellow with a maroon picotee edge and veining. Evergreen perennial with dark green thick leaves.  Blooms early, vigorous and easy to grow. Tolerant to black walnuts...

This smaller statice forms cute rosettes of grayish leaves. In early summer it forms well branched stems with tiny white star-shaped flowers. Great plant for cut and dried flowers.  Blooming Time: July/AugustSize: 1.5' tall and wideUSDA Zones: 5 to...

Showy and easy perennial. Large white flowers with blue spots inside bloom in early summer and features low mounds of fresh green leaves. Groundcovering growth. Blooming Time: May to June (in cooler areas can bloom until August)Size: usually 8-10"...

Narrow-leafed Ironweed hybrid forming dense, healthy clumps. One of the top performers at Chicago Botanic Garden Vernonia trials in 2020, gaining 5 out of 5 stars! Easy, adaptable and valuable pollinator plant with very late and long blooming period!...

Sage hybrid with 15" long spikes of reddish-orange flowers all summer long till frost. Offer your hummingbirds the best natural feeder! Attracts some bees too. Some irregular growth, just like any larger microphyla hybrid - it's good to cut it back 1/3...

A vigorous and long blooming sage. Reddish flowers, a bit irregular with shrubby growth. Attracts hummingbirds, some bees and some butterflies. Blooming Time: long flowering, starting in early to mid summer until fall (or frost)Size: 3-4' tall and wide...

Clumping perennial with strawberry-like flowers. Prefers somewhat drained soils and is incredibly drought tolerant. Reddish color on some leaves in fall. Great for dry sunny beds, rock gardens or crevice gardens. Does well in our dry raised bed (zone...

Modest, slender plant. Grayish leaves and creamy-white flowers on thin stems tha float above the ground. Best as a smaller filling plant in natural looking flower bed, or combined with plants with bigger leaves and flowers. Plants are not very...

Switchgrass cultivar with shorter & wider clumps (4' x 4'). Wide, powdery-blue, arching leaves with cream seed heads. Reminicent of invasive Miscanthus (Chinese Grass) and is an excellent subtitute for it. Blooming time: late summer to fallSize: 4'...

Upright, columnar switgrass cultivar - not-flopping, withstands wind and snow. Great height of 4', unique rose-colored flowers, gray-green leaves (with hint of rose color in the fall). Handles heat, humidity, black walnut and is drought tolerant...

Hardy hybrid coneflower with compact, upright, well branched habit. Burgundy red flowers and higher flower coverage. Narrow leaves show parentage of narrow- leaf coneflowers which leads to better tolerance to drought, heat and humidity. Forms wide,...

Extraordinary looking native perennial sunflower, with a very architectural appearance and arching, narrow willow-like leaves. The ornamental value is higher before it blooms. It's a late bloomer (3" yellow flowers with dark centers), slowly spread by...

Siberian iris with eye-catching, high contrast color patterns (rich wine purple + lighter blue-purple + veining) Siberian Irises bloom after Tall Bearded Irises and before Japanese Irises. Blooming Time: early summer bloomer (late spring/early summer...

Shorter perennial snapdragon with bicolor soft pink-yellow flowers and gray-ish fuzzy leaves. Flowers for the whole summer and tolerates heat, humidity and drought, but requires drained and drier soils. Blooming Time: June to AugustSize: 8-12" tall...